About
Nicky Quamina-Woo is a Black + Native Hawaiian visual storyteller, who divides her time between the African continent, Southeast Asia, and New York City.
Woo has traveled to and lived in more than 30 countries within the Global South, mainly focusing on stories related to healthcare, culture, and the transmuted effects of trauma on historically marginalized groups. Her projects center on the complicated realities that frame these events, particularly ones precipitated by the legacy of Western colonization. Nicky is deeply interested in the aftermath of collective trauma and the myriad ways it shifts the underlying ethos of groups to form something new: Adaptation as a means of survival. Nicky’s desire to examine these changes is intrinsically linked to her ethnic heritage, whose parallels inspire her to dig deeper in search of human fortitude and solace.
Nicky has won a Nikon-Stafford FotoReportage grant, American Photography 37 & 40, Portrait of Humanity, as well as a Reuters Storytelling grant for her work on a Tanzania-based project about the intersection of Western medicine and witchcraft. She is a proud member of WomenPhotograph, DiversifyPhoto, Black Women Photograph, and Authority Collective, all of which work to further amplify the voices of the traditionally underrepresented.
In her time as an independent, her clients include The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, CNN, Human Rights Watch, Facebook, NPR, Apple, Vogue Italia, The Melinda French-Gates Foundation, Google, and Reporters Beyond Borders.
Contact
+1 929 313 7920